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Camp A Low Hum folds; ASTRA music finalists; Blues and BBQ Festival to launch

Camp A Low Hum folds Underground NZ music festival Camp A Low Hum have announced that next February’s event will be the final one. A statement on their website reads: "I have been agonising on…

TMN MEGA ULTRA XMAS PLAYLIST

To get you in the spirit of Christmas, we’ve knocked together this festival playlist, spanning all tastes, genres and... well, levels of quality. They are Xmas songs after all... Merry Christmas!

TMN Hot 100 of 2013: the most heard songs at Australian radio

The year has almost drawn to a close and what a crazy one it’s been. We’ve seen some huge songs come and go, a number of wildly varying genres dominate the charts, and now that commercial radio have…

Curio Corner #3: Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal prototype

For many of our readers, Michael Jackson’s menacing, popping Smooth Criminal was irreversibly ruined by Alien Ant Farm nu-metal rendition of the track. For others, Alien Art Farm’s chart-topper is…

Curio Corner #1: Ween’s rejected Pizza Hut jingle

Putting cheese inside the crust of a pizza was one of those amazing ideas that advanced mankind when it was first rolled out by Pizza Hut in 2002 as the main feature of their ’Insider’ range of…

Heatseeker: Naya Rivera

You might know her as Santana Lopez from Glee, but Naya Rivera is so much more than that, and in order to prove it – and consequently future-proof her relevance once Glee wraps up next year (I know…

Chrissy Amphlett: my photographic infatuation

Back in the early ’80s I wandered into the Piccadilly Hotel, Kings Cross, on a rainy Monday night for a beer and to watch whatever resident band was playing. I got lucky: it was the Divinyls…

GarageBand now free on iOS 7

It appears that Apple’s popular GarageBand app will become free on iOS 7, according to information accidentally posted online by the company yesterday. Redesigned logos for the popular music…

Album Review: Bad Religion, Christmas Songs

With a cover image snapped by Gerald Walker in 1946, depicting a six-year-old Austrian boy hugging donated shoes from the Red Cross, it’s clear from the onset that this is no Christmas album doused…

Radio ad revenue up in all markets